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APNewsBreak: Rubio book says he almost quit race

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Sen. Marco Rubio was on the verge of dropping out of the 2010 race for Senate, convinced that then-Gov. Charlie Crist's popularity, power and money would be too much to overcome in a Republican primary. He was also afraid any future political ambitions would be crushed by Crist's supporters, Rubio wrote in his autobiography to be released next week....
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APNewsBreak: Rubio book says he almost quit race

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Sen. Marco Rubio was on the verge of dropping out of the 2010 race for Senate, convinced that then-Gov. Charlie Crist's popularity, power and money would be too much to overcome in a Republican primary. He was also afraid any future political ambitions would be crushed by Crist's supporters, Rubio wrote in his autobiography to be released next week....
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APNewsBreak: Rubio book says he almost quit race

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Sen. Marco Rubio was on the verge of dropping out of the 2010 race for Senate, convinced that then-Gov. Charlie Crist's popularity, power and money would be too much to overcome in a Republican primary. He was also afraid any future political ambitions would be crushed by Crist's supporters, Rubio wrote in his autobiography to be released next week....
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Sandusky accuser: I screamed in vain from basement

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- The prosecution's case in Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial neared its conclusion on Thursday after just four days of testimony, with three more accusers taking the witness stand, including a young man who said the former Penn State assistant football coach raped him as a teen guest in Sandusky's home....
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Sandusky accuser: I screamed in vain from basement

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- The prosecution's case in Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial neared its conclusion on Thursday after just four days of testimony, with three more accusers taking the witness stand, including a young man who said the former Penn State assistant football coach raped him as a teen guest in Sandusky's home....
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AP EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon to mark gay pride month

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Last summer, gays in the military dared not admit their sexual orientation. This summer, the Pentagon will salute them, marking June as gay pride month just as it has marked other celebrations honoring racial or ethnic groups....
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AP EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon to mark gay pride month

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Last summer, gays in the military dared not admit their sexual orientation. This summer, the Pentagon will salute them, marking June as gay pride month just as it has marked other celebrations honoring racial or ethnic groups....
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AP EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon to mark gay pride month

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Last summer, gays in the military dared not admit their sexual orientation. This summer, the Pentagon will salute them, marking June as gay pride month just as it has marked other celebrations honoring racial or ethnic groups....
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US Olympic uniforms could shave time off sprints

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. Olympic track and field athletes will wear uniforms at the London Summer Olympics that Nike says could shave up to 0.023 seconds off 100-meter sprint times - a difference that could have elevated Walter Dix from bronze to the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics....
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Ore. court: Scouts 'perversion files' to be public

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Oregon Supreme Court's decision Thursday to approve the release of 20,000 confidential Boy Scouts of America documents will give the public its deepest look at people flagged by the organization as suspected child molesters and show how Scouts kept them out of leadership....
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Ore. court: Scouts 'perversion files' to be public

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Oregon Supreme Court's decision Thursday to approve the release of 20,000 confidential Boy Scouts of America documents will give the public its deepest look at people flagged by the organization as suspected child molesters and show how Scouts kept them out of leadership....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Ex-inmate: Reputed Klansman granted legal power

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A black man says Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klan behind bars for the 1960s deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, gave him power of attorney and land rights when they were both in prison together....
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Ex-inmate: Reputed Klansman granted legal power

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A black man says Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klan behind bars for the 1960s deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, gave him power of attorney and land rights when they were both in prison together....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Ex-inmate: Reputed Klansman granted legal power

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A black man says Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klan behind bars for the 1960s deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, gave him power of attorney and land rights when they were both in prison together....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Ex-inmate: Reputed Klansman granted legal power

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A black man says Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klan behind bars for the 1960s deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, gave him power of attorney and land rights when they were both in prison together....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Senate panel boosts spending on IRS, Pell Grants

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate panel divided along party lines Thursday to approve legislation funding President Barack Obama's health care and financial services overhaul laws and boosting spending on the IRS and Pell Grants for low-income college students....
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Senate panel boosts spending on IRS, Pell Grants

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate panel divided along party lines Thursday to approve legislation funding President Barack Obama's health care and financial services overhaul laws and boosting spending on the IRS and Pell Grants for low-income college students....
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Senate panel boosts spending on IRS, Pell Grants

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate panel divided along party lines Thursday to approve legislation funding President Barack Obama's health care and financial services overhaul laws and boosting spending on the IRS and Pell Grants for low-income college students....
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Stanford gets 110 years for role in $7B swindle

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford had plenty of things to say Thursday before a federal judge sentenced him to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over two decades....
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Stanford gets 110 years for role in $7B swindle

Tue, 2024-11-26 22:21
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford had plenty of things to say Thursday before a federal judge sentenced him to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over two decades....
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